Bauhinia integrifolia Roxb. subsp. integrifolia
Morphological description (integ integ Bauh Reinw f18 )
Large tendrilled climber; young branches rusty woolly and grooved.
Leaves: stipules minute, rounded, early caducous; petioles rusty puberulous, 1-5 cm; lamina (integrifolia Bauhinia lv139505) broadly ovate to orbicular, up to 15 cm; 9-11-nerved; entire to emarginate or shallowly bifid with a wide, deltoid sinus; tip of lobes acute to obtuse; base deeply cordate; upper surface glabrous, glossy, lower first puberulous, later glabrous except sometimes on the nerves.
Inflorescence (integrifolia Bauh infl 386334) multiflowered, ± dense panicles composed of corymbose racemes, axis rusty pubescent; pedicels slender, up to 3 cm; bracts narrowly lanceolate, up to 3 mm; bracteoles minute, (usually) inserted about the middle of the pedicel.
Flowers: (glauca Bauhinia fl/lvs 386523) Buds globose to ovoid with acute apex, 3-4 mm diameter. Hypanthium tubular, striate, puberulous, 2-4 mm. Calyx splitting into 2 (or 3) reflexed lobes. Petals unequal, orange turning red, obovate, tapering towards the short claw, 8-15 mm, margin crenulate, outside densely rusty-hirsute. Stamens 3 fertile, filaments filiform, hairy at base, slightly longer than petals; anthers ellipsoid, c. 1 mm; staminodes 2, minute. Ovary subsessile, rusty woolly; style in upper 2/3 glabrous; stigma capitate.
Pollen integrifolia Bauh pol 386333
Pods dehiscent, oblong, puberulous when young, later glabrous, 15-20 by 25 cm (integrifolia Bauh lv/fl 139506).
Seeds 5-8, flat, ovate-orbicular, c. 2 cm diameter.
Distribution
Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula from the Isthmus of Kra (Thailand) southwards.
Habitat
Common from the lowland up to 1200 m altitude.
Vernacular names
Kumpaya, Daup daup (Api), Dedaok (Pahang); Katop katop, Akar tapak kuda (Meroh), Sarau, Kempaga, Mali mali, Mesatoh (Malaya); Andor si bola (Sumatra).
Uses
Bast fibres; sap locally as medicine.
Note
The type of Phanera bicornuta Miq. (U) consists of two sterile branches, some loose leaves, a loose pod and one seed. This specimen was treated by de Wit under Phanera bidentata as subsp. bicornuta. Nothing in the material suggests that it belongs there; most certainly it belongs to Bauhinia integrifolia, even Miquel writes in the protologue that it is close to Phanera polyantha (= Bauhinia integrifolia).